Background
Salter, Robert Mundhenk was born on March 31, 1892 in Huntington, Indiana, United States. Son of William Anderson and Minnie Elta (Mundhenk) Salter.
Salter, Robert Mundhenk was born on March 31, 1892 in Huntington, Indiana, United States. Son of William Anderson and Minnie Elta (Mundhenk) Salter.
Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Ohio State University, graduate student, 1924-1925. Honorary Doctor of Science, Rutgers University, 1944.
Instructor agricultural chemistry, Ohio State University, 1914-1915. Assistant soil chemist, West. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1915-1916. Soil chemist and assistant professor of soils, West Virginia University, 1916-1919, agronomist and professor agronomy, 1919-1912.
Professor soils, Ohio State University, 1921-1925.
Chief in agronomy, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1925-1940. Also chairman department agronomy, Ohio State University, 1929-1940.
Associate director Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1940. Director North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 1940-1941.
Chief Division of Soil and Fertilizer Investigations, bureau of Plant Industry, unites states department of Agriculture, 1941-1942, chief, Bureau Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, 1942-1951.
Chief of Soil Conservation Service, since 1951.
Fellow American Society Agronomy (president 1936), American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president Member Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Gamma Sigma Delta.
Married Sarah Godfrey, August 14, 1917. Children: Elizabeth Ann, Robert Mundhenk, Barbara Jane, Richard Godfrey.